Oz Deputy Prime Minister launches new diploma of primary education

September 9th, 2009 ISLAMABAD - The Pakistani cabinet has approved a new education policy Wednesday after deliberating on the subject for four years, the Online agency reported. Education Minister Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani said all federal and provincial educational institutions were consulted before finalising the policy.

September 8th, 2009 NEW DELHI - In a rare public appreciation, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Tuesday praised Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal and his deputy D. Purandeswari as finest minds, who are working hard for nation building.

September 6th, 2009 SYDNEY - The Federation of Indian Students of Australia (FISA) on Sunday urged the Australian Government to take steps for the welfare of students who are stranded after the closure of private colleges. The FISA blamed Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard for failing to stop "the spin on the state of affairs" within her portfolio of Education.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - An Australian university Tuesday joined hands with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here to train elementary teachers in rural India and to help the country attain universal primary education. The teachers training programe will be conducted through IGNOU centres across the country, authorities of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said.

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australia's Deputy Prime Minister Ms. Julia Gillard today visited the ASHA Community Health and Development Society and presented a cheque of INR 300,000 (AUD 7,500).

September 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Helping India attain universal primary education, an Australian university Tuesday joined hands with the Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU) here to train elementary teachers in rural regions. The teachers training programe will be conducted through IGNOU centres across the country, authorities of the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) said.

August 31st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Australian Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard, who is on a five-day visit to India, on Monday assured that zero-tolerance for violence against Indian students has been adopted in Australia. Gillard, who is also Minister for Education, Employment and Workplace Relations, called on her Indian counterpart Kapil Sibal here.

August 29th, 2009 Koraput (Orissa) - Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Kapil Sibal on Saturday said the Government was planning to set up over 2,500 model and 200 central schools on public-private- partnership (PPP) basis in the country in next two years Inaugurating the much-awaited central university in this tribal-dominated town, which often witnesses Maoist violence, Sibal informed that the proposed model schools would be set up in the backward areas to provide primary education to all as "higher education has no meaning unless primary education was strengthened." "The schools would be set up in PPP as part of our efforts to strengthen the human resource base," Sibal said during the function. Sibal also asked corporate houses to invest in a big way in the education sector.

August 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Australian Deputy Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, begins her inaugural five-day visit to India on 31 August. The visit, which will take her to New Delhi and Chennai, will strengthen Australia's relations with India.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton began talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Monday afternoon, with the Mumbai attacks and their aftermath, the situation in the Afghanistan-Pakistan ('AfPak') region and India's role in it on the agenda. Manmohan Singh is expected to tell Clinton about his talks with Pakistani Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani at Sharm-el-Sheikh in Egypt and New Delhi's position on dialogue with Islamabad, official sources said.

July 20th, 2009 NEW DELHI - The Delhi government Monday announced creation of nearly 35,000 more seats in primary sections of Sarvodaya Vidyalayas in the national capital. "We have increased the intake of students from 40 to 50 in every class of the primary sections of the Sarvodaya schools of the Delhi government following good results of our schools," said Delhi Education Minister Arvinder Singh Lovely.

July 1st, 2009 NEW DELHI - Senior Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader Murli Manohar Joshi Wednesday said that the Congress-led government lacked a road map to improve the education system and added that it should evolve consensus among all stakeholders before introducing reforms. "The government has no direction and no road map about the changes it wants to make in the education system.

June 3rd, 2009 JAIPUR - In an attempt to preserve Hindu rituals, a Sanskrit University in Rajasthan has initiated a diploma in Hindu priesthood. The diploma would certify that the students can organize and conduct any Hindu ritual.

April 28th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A 39-year-old Chinese woman is said to be attending primary school with her 10-year-old son. The migrant worker in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region never learned to read and write, and she now shows up at the primary school with her son every day, reports China Daily.

January 7th, 2009 CHENNAI - Prime Minister Manmohan Singh Thursday launched a new initiative, the Global Indian Network of Knowledge, or Global INK, to bring India closer to its 25 million diaspora in 130 countries in the area of knowledge. The network initiative is aimed at providing opportunities for overseas Indian professionals and organisations to engage as partners in the development projects in India, the prime minister told delegates at the inauguration of the seventh Pravasi Bharatiya Divas here.